Sentences with phrase «symptoms a patient reported»

This example of a vicious circle shows that the specific symptoms patients report, and their interactions, can be of crucial clinical importance.»

A second study, of patients with type 1 diabetes, emphasizes the potential importance of treating depressive symptoms regardless of their cause: It found that the greater depressive symptoms a patient reported, the higher that person's mortality risk.

Not exact matches

Flu season may peak this week, with patients exhibiting flu - like symptoms making up more than 6 % of all visits to the doctor, according to the CDC's most recent weekly FluView report.

Cosentyx can steadily improve the signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis — including patient - reported pain — over three years, Novartis said at the American College of Rheumatology's (ACR) annual meeting.

Every clinician who routinely treat athletes with post-concussion syndrome (i.e. patients whose symptoms after suffering a sports - related concussion persist for months or years), with whom I spoke for this article expressed variations of the same concern: that their patients, hearing media reports about athletes suffering symptoms associated with CTE (such as depression), were losing hope of a full recovery, to the point of considering suicide.

They reported that the symptoms were always in the eye contralateral to the side on which the patient was lying.»

Patients reporting greater overall religiousness and spirituality also reported better physical health, greater ability to perform their usual daily tasks, and fewer physical symptoms of cancer and treatment.

However, 10 to 20 percent of patients taking statins report muscle - related symptoms including aches, pains and cramps that prevent the use of recommended doses.

When patients were unaware they were taking statins there was no reported increase in muscle - related symptoms.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

Primary outcomes included physician - reported side effects measured via a modified RTOG scale and patient - reported outcomes of urinary, bowel and sexual function side effects measured with the Prostate Cancer Symptom Scale (PCSS) questionnaire.

Based on their results, Gigi Ebenezer, M.B.B.S., M.D., assistant professor of neurology and the first author on the study, reported that protein clumps were detected in 70 percent of cases and 20 percent of patients who carried disease - causing genes but hadn't yet developed symptoms.

To diagnose depression, psychiatrists typically tally up the number of depression symptoms that patients report in questionnaires.

Reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, Krause says the cyclic and nonspecific symptoms of B. miyamotoi are problematic for doctors trying to identify the disease and for patients seeking treatment.

Although the exact process by which magnetic stimulation relieves depression remains an open question, TMS practitioners have reported that about 60 percent of patients see a remission of their symptoms.

Scope of the problem A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study released this spring shows that 14 percent of patients with drug - resistant major depressive disorder experience a remission of symptoms after rTMS treatment compared with a control group, which reported a 5 percent rate of remission.

The study published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin reports preliminary results showing that a blood test, when used in psychiatric patients experiencing symptoms that are considered to be indicators of a high risk for psychosis, identifies those who later went on to develop psychosis.

A significantly higher percentage of patients receiving pinaverium reported that their IBS symptoms improved (60 percent) than in the placebo group (34 percent).

Every 10 minutes in the greater Houston area, SAPPHIRE receives reports on emergency room cases, descriptions of patients» self - reported symptoms, updated electronic health rec - ords, and clinicians» notes from eight hospitals that account for more than 30 percent of the region's emergency room visits.

Patients undergoing this viral therapy typically experience mild flulike symptoms, owing to immune response to the virus, Kirn said, but the company has reported no other side effects.

Kidney disease patients often lose their interest in food, reporting that it has little flavor or an unpleasant taste, and the malnutrition that results is a significant contributor to worsening of symptoms and mortality risk.

Even though early detection of vision difficulties may lead to better quality of life, greater independence and a lower risk of falls in older adults, routine screening doesn't appear more effective than only testing patients with symptoms, the USPSTF reports in JAMA March 1.

By comparing doctor's reports of a patient's symptoms with images of the patient's brain post-mortem, they may be able to classify different categories of Alzheimer's disease.

In a report on the research, published in the December 27 issue of JAMA Dermatology, the researchers call on physicians who treat women with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) to make patients aware that they may be at increased risk for fibroids and should be screened for the condition, particularly if they have symptoms such as heavy bleeding and pain.

There were a few limitations to the study, including possible misclassification of COPD in some NHANES patients and the use of self - reported respiratory symptoms and COPD exacerbations.

During five years of follow - up, 64 percent of patients never reported a six - month period when their skin was symptom free while they were not using topical medications.

«Given the high prevalence of treatable sleep problems in MS patients, and the fact that many patients with MS rate fatigue as one of their most bothersome symptoms, physicians should have a low threshold to refer MS patients who report sleep disturbances to sleep specialists,» says last author Ronald Chervin, M.D., M.S., professor of neurology and director of U-M Sleep Disorders Center.

Ceritinib significantly improved patient - reported outcomes including lung cancer - specific symptoms and overall health status, compared to placebo (p < 0.05).

Patients reported an increase in spontaneous bowel movements from two to four times per week, as well as a decrease in constipation symptoms, including reduced difficulty in passing stools and incomplete evacuation.

«We also are looking at comprehensive packages for getting patients involved in preventing other types of complications by asking them to report any symptoms of pneumonia or deep vein thrombosis and reminding them when and how often to exercise to improve physical therapy outcomes,» Ms. Lu said.

In the NHANES III cohort, 296 COPD patients had an allergic phenotype, which was defined as self - reported doctor - diagnosed hay fever or allergic upper respiratory symptoms.

Ultimately, the investigators focused on 42 reports composed of 4,113 patients, who were assessed for depressive symptoms generally between one and 12 months after ICU discharge.

Decreases in connectivity reflected improvements in symptoms, as reported by the patients.

A so - called meta - analysis of reports on more than 4,000 patients suggests that almost one in three people discharged from hospital intensive care units (ICUs) has clinically important and persistent symptoms of depression, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Gibson's laboratory also reported in the Sept. 26 Gastroenterology that 30 IBS patients cut their gastrointestinal symptoms in half when they spent 21 days on a diet low in FODMAPs.

Pain is the most common symptom reported both in the general population and patients seen in primary care, the leading cause of work disability, and a condition that costs the United States more than $ 600 billion each year in health care and lost productivity.

However, a few patients report persistent symptoms after treatment.

However, based on the results reported by the participants themselves, we must conclude that long - term use of antibiotics does not help patients who previously had Lyme disease and continue to report unexplained, persistent symptoms.

The researchers report at least a 50 percent reduction in symptoms in two - thirds of patients with moderately severe depressive symptoms such as feeling hopeless, feeling bad about oneself or having trouble concentrating.

Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the US, today announced results of two papers published in the peer - reviewed journals PLOS ONE and American Journal of Pathology, that seem to support claims of lingering symptoms reported by many patients who have already received antibiotic treatment for the disease.

The Advanced Symptom Management System (ASyMS) allows patients to report the side effects from their chemotherapy via a mobile phone.

A year on, about two thirds of the patients in both groups reported at least a 50 percent reduction in their symptoms.

The patient records symptoms through daily reports, filed via text message or the Internet.

Dr. Chen went on to point out that, though 56 of the patients treated in the study experienced mild peripheral neuropathy (an adverse event characterized by tingling in the extremities, commonly reported among those treated with BV), 88 percent reported that symptoms abated over time.

Many CFS patients report that their symptoms began after an acute viral infection.

But modelers should consider questions like «How are patients who report symptoms different from those who hide them?»

Patients with CFS often report that their condition — a mix of symptoms including unexplained pains and excessive fatigue — began after an otherwise normal viral infection.

A study published in 2012 in the Journal of Asthma found that when asthma patients merely looked at pictures of known allergens, they reported 15 percent more symptoms than when they viewed neutral images.

In a report published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), investigators say metformin, an inexpensive drug commonly used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes, appears to block symptoms of nicotine withdrawal in rodents.

Pathology reporting was according to internationally agreed criteria.16 Patient self - reported bladder function and sexual function were measured at baseline and 6 months following surgery with the International Prostate Symptom Score (I - PSS), International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF), and Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI).